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I'm often amazed at the way politicians -who spend hours pouring over opinion poll results in a desperate attempt to discover what the public thinks -are certain they know precisly what God's views are on everything

Quote by Simon Hoggart about politics, opinion, public, god

I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

Quote by Jack Henry Abbott

Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

Quote by Randy Bachman about public

I made four or five films a year, and I still had enough time to grow desperate.

Quote by Victoria Abril about time

Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say that what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.

Quote by Russell Baker about need

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

I was helpless and so desperately poor.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell

Finally in the summer of 1974, we tried our first experiments in desperate need of results to be presented at the VIth International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems, Kandersteg, 1974.

Quote by Richard Ernst about need

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

Quote by Federico Fellini

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

Quote by Katharine Hepburn about marriage, people

My brother died of cancer two years ago (1998), renal cell carcinoma. He was my only real brother and I didn't know what to do. I'd never been so desperate in my life.

Quote by Quincy Jones about real estate, life

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming.

Quote by Sara Paretsky about parents, charity

When men attempt bold gestures, generally it's considered romantic. When women do it, it's often considered desperate or psycho.

Quote by Sarah Jessica Parker about man

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

Quote by Walter Pater about experience, common sense, sense, things, time

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

Quote by Erich Fromm about hope, moment

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Quote by André Breton about wish, state, love

You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance that erupts through the skin and joins the energy that created the world.

Quote by Sheilah Graham Westbrook about wish, world

In a desperate situation, only courage and intelligence can help you.

Quote by Jean Piaget about despair, intelligence, courage, help

Pride is the defense of autonomy against desperate and naughty mediocrity.

Quote by Petre Pandrea about proudness, mediocrity